"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

Lie, Lies, Living, Now, Present

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"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

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"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

William Wyler, American Director

Lie, Trying

"As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman

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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

Jean Harlow, American Actress

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"There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

Courage

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

Love

"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one."

Needs

"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to."

Want

"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

Beauty

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Change

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

Time

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

Beauty

"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea."

Connection

"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."

Adventure